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by rinzwind
Tue Sep 06, 2022 4:22 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Why is LiveCode not recognized more as an app developer language?
Replies: 141
Views: 532982

Re: Why is LiveCode not recognized more as an app developer language?

I came by after years to see any progress. Woohoo... that pricing is indeed insane (IMHO). I guess they copied the Embarcadero (Delphi) model: squeezing existing customers instead of getting new ones. I started with LC 5+, that was kind of fun and I expected nice improvements and additions in the ne...
by rinzwind
Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:33 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: AppleScript insight
Replies: 17
Views: 10918

Re: AppleScript insight

There's a reason mathematical formula's don't use English like syntax. It's tedious and cumbersome. Say I want to work with a rect structure. Refer to it with rect.x, rect.y, rect.width, rect.height is much easier on the eye (and hands) than the width of x, the height of rect. People also just say '...
by rinzwind
Fri Nov 15, 2019 5:05 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: AppleScript insight
Replies: 17
Views: 10918

Re: AppleScript insight

The author is one who was involved intimately with creating AppleScript.
by rinzwind
Fri Nov 15, 2019 9:34 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: AppleScript insight
Replies: 17
Views: 10918

AppleScript insight

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2007/readings/applescript.pdf “The experiment in designing a language that resembled natural languages (English and Japanese) was not success- ful. It was assumed that scripts should be presented in “nat- ural language” so that average people could read and write the...
by rinzwind
Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:29 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Variable in an SQL Query
Replies: 11
Views: 10587

Re: Variable in an SQL Query

You need to use parameters, unless you want to be vulnerable to sql injections...

Example copied from other thread:
revExecuteSQL tConnectionID, "INSERT INTO TableA (Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4) VALUES (:1,:2,:3,:4)", "t1","t2","t3","t4"
by rinzwind
Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:06 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Native Controls - iOS and Android
Replies: 8
Views: 6392

Re: Native Controls - iOS and Android

Just disappointed the way LC is going. So yup, Im looking elsewhere, but want to be sure they see it coming so its not a surprise if things go wrong. Just look at this announcement of 5.5: " LiveCode pricing begins at $99 for a single seat license and is available online today." They completely alie...
by rinzwind
Wed Feb 15, 2017 12:44 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Native Controls - iOS and Android
Replies: 8
Views: 6392

Re: Native Controls - iOS and Android

The question remains why they are not native (or at the very least decent looking and behaving as an end user expects). But alas, its not gonna change.
by rinzwind
Sun Jan 29, 2017 6:55 pm
Forum: HTML5
Topic: Not working as expected?
Replies: 38
Views: 28475

Re: Not working as expected?

It is daring to ask money for a feature that is nowhere near ready for production... and wont be for the forthseeing future.
by rinzwind
Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:04 am
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Sound latency
Replies: 3
Views: 4807

Re: Sound latency

Late reply... Even there you have latency. Its bad that theres still no way to have robust instant sound playback. The app just pauses a fraction of a second while the sound is loaded, even when the same sound has already played dozens of times.
by rinzwind
Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:52 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Create a platformer game via LiveCode?
Replies: 3
Views: 7772

Re: Create a platformer game via LiveCode?

Just another option for anyone interested... The scripting language Lua (http://www.lua.org/about.html) in combination with Corona or Love2D seems supported and used too (ie one can find many games in the wild build with this, frequently source is available too.. in contrast to lc..). For a Lua IDE ...
by rinzwind
Fri Nov 25, 2016 2:30 pm
Forum: LiveCode Builder
Topic: Why LCB exists?
Replies: 1
Views: 3473

Why LCB exists?

Shouldn't it be possible to use the main programming/scripting language itself to produce widgets for it?... VB6 did it, Delphi and c# does it. Its reinventing the wheel and doesnt look good for LiveCode Script (since it should be flexible/fast enough to handle it) plus compiler design is not someth...
by rinzwind
Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:45 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Compiler howto ;
Replies: 2
Views: 3477

Re: Compiler howto ;

SenseTalk has "object first syntax" in 2 variations... (never used it since its dedicated to software testing, but its manual looks very professional and promising). See http://docs.testplant.com/?q=content/sensetalk-reference for an interesting read... And like I said, if one want to offer a modern...
by rinzwind
Sun Nov 13, 2016 3:24 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Compiler howto ;
Replies: 2
Views: 3477

Compiler howto ;

Anders Hejlsberg (mr Turbo Pascal, c#) gives some insight into modern compiler design, which happens to be indispensable for the modern intelligent code editor. At the end of the video they also talk about how multiple editors from different vendors can support a programming language easily by deleg...
by rinzwind
Fri Sep 02, 2016 9:03 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: script local variable
Replies: 9
Views: 4971

Re: script local variable

Performance wise locals and globals are preferable to properties. Especially when one accesses or changes them many many times in loops etc. It would be nice if ther was something like a stack scope variable or card scope. But nope. Its all or nothing right now. Array handling trough properties espe...

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